Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercises, The (Book Alone)
by Aaron, Jane E.Edition: 6th
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-01-01
Publisher(s): Longman
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Summary
The most trusted and authoritative name in handbooks,The Little, Brown Compact Handbook with Exercisesis an easy-to-use reference that will answer any question you may have in grammar, writing, or research. It also includes exercises so you can practice skills. This edition offers the latest information on writing with computers, writing online, analyzing visuals, and researching effectively on the Internet. With clear explanations, a wealth of examples, and quick reference checklists and boxes,The Little, Brown Compact Handbookwill makes it easy to find what you need and use the information you find. Will answer any question a writer has about grammar, the writing process, or research. The writing process, critical thinking, argumentative writing, style, grammar, mechanics, usage, the research process, how to document sources. Anyone who wants a reliable writing reference book.
Table of Contents
| Preface for Students | p. v |
| Preface for Instructors | p. viii |
| Writing Process | |
| The Writing Situation | p. 3 |
| Assessment | |
| Subject | |
| Audience | |
| Purpose | |
| Invention | p. 8 |
| Journal keeping | |
| Observing | |
| Freewriting | |
| Brainstorming | |
| Clustering | |
| Asking questions | |
| Thesis and Organization | p. 14 |
| Thesis statement | |
| Organization | |
| Drafting | p. 22 |
| Starting to draft | |
| Maintaining momentum | |
| Sample first draft | |
| Revising and Editing | p. 24 |
| Revising the whole essay | |
| Sample revision | |
| Editing the revised draft | |
| Formatting and proofreading | |
| Sample Final Draft | p. 33 |
| Collaborating | |
| Preparing a writing portfolio | |
| Paragraphs | p. 38 |
| Unity | |
| Coherence | |
| Development | |
| Introductions and conclusions | |
| Document Design | p. 53 |
| Academic papers | |
| Principles of design | |
| Elements of design | |
| Illustrations | |
| Readers with disabilities | |
| Writing in and out of College | |
| Academic Writing | p. 69 |
| Becoming an academic writer | |
| Audience | |
| Purpose | |
| Structure and format | |
| Language | |
| Study Skills | p. 75 |
| Time management | |
| Listening and note taking in class | |
| Reading | |
| Exams | |
| Critical Thinking and Reading | p. 82 |
| Reading texts | |
| Viewing images | |
| Argument | p. 95 |
| Elements of argument | |
| Reasonableness | |
| Organization | |
| Visual arguments | |
| Sample Argument | p. 110 |
| Online Writing | p. 114 |
| Electronic mail | |
| Online collaboration | |
| Web compositions | |
| Oral Presentations | p. 123 |
| Organization | |
| Delivery | |
| Public Writing | p. 127 |
| Business letters and resumes: Sample Letter and Resume | p. 129 |
| Memos, reports, and proposals: Sample Memo and Report | p. 134 |
| Community work: Sample Flyer, Newsletter, and Brochure | p. 136 |
| Clarity and Style | |
| Emphasis | p. 141 |
| Effective subjects and verbs | |
| Sentence beginnings and endings | |
| Coordination | |
| Subordination | |
| Parallelism | p. 152 |
| With and, but, or, nor, yet | |
| With both ... and, not ... but, etc. | |
| In comparisons | |
| With lists, headings, and outlines | |
| Variety and Details | p. 156 |
| Sentence length | |
| Sentence structure | |
| Details | |
| Appropriate and Exact Language | p. 160 |
| Appropriate language | |
| Exact language | |
| Completeness | p. 176 |
| Compounds | |
| Needed words | |
| Conciseness | p. 177 |
| Focusing on subject and verb | |
| Cutting empty words | |
| Cutting repetition | |
| Reducing clauses and phrases | |
| Cutting there is or it is | |
| Combining sentences | |
| Rewriting jargon | |
| Sentence Parts and Patterns | |
| Basic Grammar | |
| Parts of Speech | p. 188 |
| Nouns | |
| Pronouns | |
| Verbs | |
| Adjectives and adverbs | |
| Prepositions and conjunctions | |
| Interjections | |
| The Sentence | p. 195 |
| Subject and predicate | |
| Predicate patterns | |
| Phrases and Subordinate Clauses | p. 201 |
| Phrases | |
| Subordinate clauses | |
| Sentence Types | p. 208 |
| Simple sentences | |
| Compound sentences | |
| Complex sentences | |
| Compound-complex sentences | |
| Verbs | |
| Forms | p. 210 |
| Sing/sang/sung and other irregular verbs | |
| Sit/set; lie/lay; rise/raise | |
| -s and -ed forms | |
| Be, have, and other helping verbs | |
| Verb + gerund or infinitive: stop eating vs. stop to eat | |
| Verb + particle: look up, look over, etc. | |
| Tenses | p. 225 |
| Present tense: sing | |
| Perfect tenses: have/had/will have sung | |
| Progressive tenses: is/was/will be singing | |
| Consistency | |
| Sequence | |
| Mood | p. 232 |
| Subjunctive: I wish I were | |
| Consistency | |
| Voice | p. 234 |
| She wrote it (active) vs. It was written (passive) | |
| Consistency | |
| Subject-Verb Agreement | p. 237 |
| -s and -es endings | |
| Intervening words | |
| Subjects with and | |
| Subjects with or or nor | |
| Everyone and other indefinite pronouns | |
| Team and other collective nouns | |
| Who, which, that | |
| News and other singular nouns ending in -s | |
| Inverted word order | |
| Is, are, and other linking verbs | |
| Titles and words being defined | |
| Pronouns | |
| Case | p. 244 |
| She and I vs. her and me | |
| It was she vs. It was her | |
| Who vs. whom | |
| Other constructions | |
| Pronoun-Antecedent Agreement | p. 251 |
| Antecedents with and | |
| Antecedents with or or nor | |
| Everyone, person, and other indefinite words | |
| Team and other collective nouns | |
| Pronoun Reference | p. 256 |
| Clear reference | |
| Close reference | |
| Specific reference | |
| Definite it and they | |
| Appropriate you | |
| Consistency | |
| Modifiers | |
| Adjectives and Adverbs | p. 260 |
| Adjective vs. adverb | |
| Adjective with linking verb: felt bad | |
| Bigger, most talented, and other comparisons | |
| Double negatives | |
| Present and past participles: boring vs. bored | |
| A, an, the, and other determiners | |
| Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers | p. 271 |
| Misplaced modifiers | |
| Dangling modifiers | |
| Sentence Faults | |
| Fragments | p. 278 |
| Tests | |
| Revision | |
| Acceptable fragments | |
| Comma Splices and Fused Sentences | p. 283 |
| Main clauses without and, but, etc. | |
| Main clauses with however, for example, etc. | |
| Mixed Sentences | p. 289 |
| Reason is because and other mixed meanings | |
| Tangled grammar | |
| Repeated subjects and other parts | |
| Punctuation | |
| End Punctuation | p. 295 |
| Period | |
| Question mark | |
| Exclamation point | |
| Comma | p. 298 |
| Main clauses with and, but, etc. | |
| Introductory elements | |
| Nonessential elements | |
| Items in a series | |
| Two or more adjectives | |
| Dates, addresses, place names, numbers | |
| With quotations | |
| Misuses | |
| Semicolon | p. 316 |
| Main clauses without and, but, etc. | |
| Main clauses with however, for example, etc. | |
| Main clauses or series items with commas | |
| Misuses | |
| Colon | p. 320 |
| Concluding explanation, series, etc. | |
| Salutation; title and subtitle; time | |
| Misuses | |
| Apostrophe | p. 323 |
| Possession | |
| Misuses | |
| Contractions | |
| Plural abbreviations, etc. | |
| Quotation Marks | p. 330 |
| Direct quotations | |
| Within quotations | |
| Dialog | |
| Titles of works | |
| Words used in a special sense | |
| Misuses | |
| With other punctuation | |
| Other Marks | p. 336 |
| Dash or dashes | |
| Parentheses | |
| Ellipsis mark | |
| Brackets | |
| Slash | |
| Spelling and Mechanics | |
| Spelling and the Hyphen | p. 345 |
| Typical spelling problems | |
| Spelling rules | |
| The hyphen | |
| Capital Letters | p. 355 |
| First word of sentence | |
| Proper nouns and adjectives | |
| Titles of works | |
| Online communication | |
| Underlining or Italics | p. 359 |
| Underlining vs. italics | |
| Titles of works | |
| Names of vehicles | |
| Foreign words | |
| Words or characters named as words | |
| Emphasis | |
| Online communication | |
| Abbreviations | p. 362 |
| Titles with proper names | |
| Familiar abbreviations | |
| BC, BCE, AD, CE, AM, PM, no., $ | |
| Latin abbreviations | |
| Inc., Bros., Co., & | |
| Units of measurement, names, etc. | |
| Numbers | p. 365 |
| Numerals vs. words | |
| Dates, addresses, etc. | |
| Beginning sentences | |
| Research Writing | |
| Research Strategy | p. 371 |
| Planning | |
| Research journal | |
| Researchable subject and question | |
| Goals for sources | |
| Working, annotated bibliography | |
| Finding Sources | p. 379 |
| Searching electronically | |
| Reference works | |
| Books | |
| Periodicals | |
| The Web | |
| Other online sources | |
| Government publications | |
| Images | |
| Your own sources | |
| Working with Sources | p. 397 |
| Evaluating sources | |
| Synthesizing sources | |
| Gathering information | |
| Using summary, paraphrase, quotation | |
| Integrating sources | |
| Avoiding Plagiarism and Documenting Sources | p. 418 |
| Plagiarism and the Internet | |
| What not to acknowledge | |
| What must be acknowledged | |
| Online sources | |
| Documenting sources | |
| Writing the Paper | p. 427 |
| Focusing and organizing | |
| Drafting, revising, and formatting | |
| Writing in the Disciplines | |
| Goals and Requirements of the Disciplines | p. 433 |
| Methods and evidence | |
| Writing assignments | |
| Tools and language | |
| Documentation and format | |
| Reading and Writing About Literature | p. 435 |
| Methods and evidence | |
| Writing assignments | |
| Tools and language | |
| Documentation and format | |
| Sample Literary Analysis | p. 442 |
| Writing in Other Disciplines | p. 444 |
| Humanities | |
| Social sciences | |
| Natural and applied sciences | |
| MLA Documentation and Format | p. 458 |
| Indexes to models | p. 458 |
| Parenthetical text citations | |
| List of works cited | |
| Format of paper | |
| Sample MLA Paper | p. 498 |
| APA Documentation and Format | p. 506 |
| Indexes to models | p. 506 |
| Parenthetical text citations | |
| List of references | |
| Format of paper | |
| Sample APA Paper | p. 526 |
| Chicago Documentation | p. 533 |
| Index to models | p. 532 |
| Notes and works-cited entries | |
| Models | |
| CSE Documentation | p. 544 |
| Index to models | p. 533 |
| Name-year citations | |
| Numbered text citations | |
| List of references | |
| Glossary of Usage | p. 553 |
| Index | p. 569 |
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